Enhancing Mental Health Services to Children with Autism

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目代表了加州大学戴维斯分校卫生系统（UCDHS）神经发育障碍医学调查（M.I.N.D.）研究所和健康与技术中心（CHT）。该项目将审查障碍并制定战略和准则，以优化远程保健技术（临床远程医疗、远程学习、互联网通信和信息传播）在为农村社区自闭症儿童及其家庭提供高质量、有经验支持、协调良好的精神保健服务方面的有效性。该项目将开发一个跨学科网络或“M.I.N.D.来自人类学、医学社会学、特殊教育和成人学习、公共关系和市场营销、政治学、医学伦理和法律、儿童精神病学、儿童心理学、传播科学和技术以及自闭症治疗等领域的教师学者银行。一个由利益相关者组成的社区咨询委员会（CAB），包括来自社区和州精神卫生部门、发展服务组织、特殊教育和家长组织的代表，将为M.I.N.D.提供建议。银行在整个指南制定过程中。拟议项目的目标是：1.形成跨学科的教师M.I.N.D.学术学者库和利益相关者社区咨询委员会（CAB），他们将参与互动，迭代过程，以确定使用远程医疗技术支持自闭症儿童最佳实践的潜在优势和障碍; 2.审查和整合学科观点，制定一套关于利用远程保健加强对农村自闭症儿童的经验支持干预措施的最佳做法的跨学科指导方针，其中将考虑到文化和伦理挑战; 3.设计和编写研究提案，调查新制定的跨学科远程保健指南的有效性，以加强农村社区自闭症儿童的心理健康实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project represents the first step in a formal collaborative, interdisciplinary research program at the University of California, Davis Health System (UCDHS) between the Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (M.I.N.D.) Institute and the Center for Health and Technology (CHT). The project will review obstacles and develop strategies and guidelines for optimizing the effectiveness of telehealth technologies (clinical telemedicine, distance learning, internet communication and information distribution) in the delivery of high quality, empirically supported, well coordinated mental health services for children with autism and their families in rural communities. The project will develop an interdisciplinary network or "M.I.N.D. Bank" of faculty scholars from such areas as anthropology, medical sociology, special education and adult learning, public relations and marketing, political science, medical ethics and law, child psychiatry, child psychology, communication sciences and technology, and autism treatment. A Community Advisory Board (CAB) of stakeholders, including representatives from community and state mental health departments, developmental services organizations, special education, and parent organizations, will advise the M.I.N.D. Bank throughout the guideline development process. The aims of the proposed project are to: 1. Form an interdisciplinary faculty M.I.N.D. Bank of academic scholars and a Community Advisory Board (CAB) of stakeholders, who will engage in an interactive, iterative process to identify the potential advantages and barriers to the use of telehealth technologies in supporting best practices for children with autism; 2. Review and integrate disciplinary perspectives to produce a set of interdisciplinary guidelines regarding best practices for using telehealth to enhance empirically supported interventions to rural children with autism that will take into account cultural and ethical challenges; 3. Design and write research proposals to investigate the efficacy of the newly developed interdisciplinary telehealth guidelines to enhance delivery of mental health practices for children with autism in rural communities.